The daughter of a woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in Perth's Swan River gave detectives information about a paperweight being the possible murder weapon, a court has heard.
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Tiffany Yiting Wan, 25, and her father Ah Ping Ban, 65, are on trial, accused of murdering 58-year-old Annabelle Chen, who was allegedly bludgeoned to death at her Mosman Park home in 2016.
Detective Sam Collins told the court on Tuesday that police searched the property looking for a large, round, metal paperweight in the shape of a Chinese coin with a hole in the middle of it, based on information provided by Wan.
Detective Collins said they did not find the object she had described, but they seized a large rectangular paperweight, also metal.
Wan wept last week as the Supreme Court of WA was shown x-ray images of her mother's injuries.
Forensic radiologist Dr Chris O'Donnell testified that Ms Chen suffered an "extreme force" that fractured her skull, as well as severe force that injured her ribs and hand.
Ban and Wan both blame each other for the murder and claim they were the accessory.
The court heard Wan transferred $135,000 into her father's bank account in two instalments after her mother's death.
The trial continues.
Australian Associated Press
